Friday, February 24, 2012

They're not that kind of nuns

Thinkprogress, the George Soros funded website, used the following photos to illustrate its story regarding the Supreme Court amicus curiae brief in support of Obamacare recently filed by 21 religious sisters:

It seemed to me unlikely that the sisters who filed the amicus brief resembled the sisters in Thinkprogress's photos, so I looked them up. Here they are. Notice any differences?

For another, as the Thinkprogress people seem to grasp instinctively, political cover for Obamacare is provided best by the kind of religious sisters who wear habits. Unfortunately for Obamacare partisans, that's not the kind of religious sister who filed the amicus brief. So the Thinkprogress people resolved their dilemma by telling a bit of a lie.

2 comments:

Frumpy old women with Kevin Bacon hairdos claiming to be nuns haven't a tenth the authority of traditionally attired (and believing) nuns. So the cynics at thinkprogress [sic] post pictures of the genuine article to illustrate their story, knowing it will add credence. It's really kind of lying, in a way.

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Inigo Hicks grew up in Hicksville, New York, and is a proud graduate of St. Ignatius Loyola School and Hicksville Senior High School. He lives with his family in New Jersey, where he sometimes attends a Traditional Latin Mass three towns away. He likes this much better than the Novus Ordo Mass said in English at his parish church a block from his house.